Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-07-18

Ihoss 'h0 teute NE cffy dur7tg Gfe summer can
Lure The Star n,ailed 70 then, for any length OF
time, and the address changed as often desired.
The subscription must be invariably paid in dd-
rance.
In addition to following the customary injunc-
lions TO keep out Of the sun and 10 eat, drink and
dress with discretion, washngtonians should
equip themselves TO meet the hot wave BY culti-
waiting a cheerful and contented mind, and by
discoultenancing and avoiding the misguided few
who work themselves and the surrounding at
mosphere into furnace heat by denuncfatiOns Of
the Washington climate as atrocious. At present
everyone IL free admit that IL Is hot but surely
we may 1nd some relief in the cooling reflection
Of the greater miseres OF others. Certainly there
Is no city on the Atlantic slope where fatalities
due to the heat OF the sun are less frequent, or
where the average thermometrfc record for a
season through Is more favorable than here. The
cities a long way Inland suffer great deal more
than we dc whenever hot wave takes them In
It's course and those the Pacific slope are often
intOlerabie from choking dust during the dry
season. Such reflections furnish q partial mind
cure for the evil OF excessive heat. Almost as
much depends on persons temperament and dis
position on the atmosphere itself In deter
mining HIS comfort In hot weather. One man win
suffer agonies, or think he does. in the same tenn
pefature which does not disturb another's cheer
fulness at ALL To give unnecessary thought to
ones nisfortunes always Increases the difficulty Of
enduring them; and there are as many persons
who make themselves wretehed by letting their
minds dwell upon the heat as OF those who
actually suffer torments from which there Is no
escape In the flesh. Don't fume, fret and worry
and n the expedient becomes necessary In order to
convince you that the heat IS not unbearabIe
have the mercury bulb dipped frequently In ice
water. 1t Is better to treat the thermometer to
tce-water than yourself.
The storm OF yesterday gave the telegraph and
telephone poles an opportunity to demonstrate
their efficacy as conductors OF lightning, and EN-
phaSized one of the many reasons why the ugly
and dangerous above-ground system OF poles and
wires should be abolished Ordinarily, cities enjoy
q comparative immunity from thunderbolts, owing
to the diffusion OF the electric currents by q null
titude OF tin roofs and general uniformity In the
heights OF the buildings The telegraph pole In
the city street, however. IL perpetual menace.
Its height its shape, itS etaIlic attachments all
make It especially attractive to the lightning; and
when IL stands near a dwelling, as In tbr case OF
the stricken pole In the southeast section yester-
day, II is dangerous To every one In the neighbor-
hood When IL Is considered that the pole Is there
not because Its presence Is necessary, but because
rich corporation is too stingy to lay out little
ready money In running wires underground, the
whole affair takes on an Irritating cast. What
happened yesterday In the alley near sixth street
southeast may happen anywhere In the city the
next time We have storm, but With effects inf
nitely worse. The poles should come down with
out needless delay.
For all that any one knows, the bravery OF rail-
way fireman In Northern New York WAS all that
stood between the President and terrible Casualty
on saturday. His chief who either was thrown
out OF the locomotive-cab. or jumped to save him
self, was dead, and this young man had the re-
sponsibility for the safety OF the whole Presiden-
ual party on his shoulders alone. His effort to get
back to the passenger car was the fruit OF star
tied impulse: and when his senses returned to
him, and he realized that the first thing to do was
TO shut on steam, it required double courage to
climb back into the scalding cloud and do his duty
The Presidents sole recorded remark, that the fire.
man "must be plucky fellow" was true enough.
but the occasion would admit OF even a longer
and stronger commentary.
The Angio-Turkish convention concerning Egypt
has come to nothing, and the newspapers and
diPlomstists are now trying to figure out whether
England has gone to great trouble and expense
only 70 be humiliatiBgiy beaten In diplomacy BY
Russia, or whether, on the other hand with the
disclosure TO Germany and Austria Of Russian In
nuence in Turkey, and the firm grip with which
Egypt Is now held by England, the effect Of a
failure TO make any promises about leaving Egypt
Is not 70 Great Bri.ain's advantage. But how
ever England or the English government may be
anected finally by public opinion OF the outcome
Of the matter It is not disputed that Sir Henry
Drummond- Wolf, the Trainer Of the convention. ia
badly dlscredited.
As summer heat, dog days and hydruphobla are
closely connected, though probably without good
reason, In the public mind, the magnificent and
deserved advertisement Of Pasteur furnished by
fAA <<SHt M
comes ut timely season. II innoculation can
remove the horrors OF hydrophobia. or. by its use
before the bite from a rabid animal has been re.
ceived, protect the system and render harmless
subsequent Infection, much OF the hopeless terror
which has attended the appearance or the pros
pect OF this dreaded disease will be removed
Pasteur viii rank among the worlds greatest dis
coverera
IL Is perhaps fortunate foe themselves that the
friends OF General Boulanger did not make them
selves disagreeably conspicuous In THURSDAYS
celebration In Paris. Not only would they have
been severely handled on the spot, but the PROMPT
ness Of their suppression would have had dis.
heartenlng eject upon their party throughout the
country. The government appears to have been
prepared Tor demonstration, and perhaps not
wholly free from disappointment that its prepara
tons were made In vain.
An attempt to corner the prune market has
ended In disaster TO It's authors and all or the
world who were not In the Job win shout a graft
ned amen! The losses OF the bull syndicate are
variousy estimated at from half million to three
quarters Of million dollars This money has
u course, gone somewhere, and the chances are
that It has passed into hands where IT will be nut
70 better uses than La those Of the rich specula
fora
while the Postmaster General Is doing his sim
mer thinking In preparation for his winter cam
paign. he might address his mind to the sub,ec,
" an International special delivery system. II
arrangements could be made with all the conn.
tries In the postal union 10 provide for the instant
delivery OF letters bearing a particular stamp IL
would De q great convenience 10 the business CON-
munity. At all events, our immediate neIghbors
on the north and south might be brought into a
convention OF this sort with marked ADVANTAGE
Mr.. Beecher always denied that he ever said the
weather was as hot as the anecdote credits him
With pronouncing IL. But when q tropical wave
IKE the one now with Us comes to give the story
an air OF reascnableness and easy cred1bility the
tendency among the newspapers to reprint the
contradlcted slander seems irresistible
SruDr Youn Isrrs1sr.